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Turning 18 : what a difference application of adult criminal law makes
Entorf, Horst - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...
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Econometric estimates of deterrence of the death penalty : facts or ideology?
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2011
In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This example is used to show how easy it is, using simple or advanced econometric techniques, to produce results that do or do not support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127786
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Econometric Estimates of Deterrence of the Death Penalty : Facts or Ideology?
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2021
In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This example is used to show how easy it is, using simple or advanced econometric techniques, to produce results that do or do not support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316017
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Measuring organized crime : statistical indicators and economics aspects
Capuano, Carlo; Giacalone, Massimiliano - 2018
One of the most negative factors that characterize Italian economy and society is the pervasive and oppressive presence of organized crime, affecting many aspects of the daily live and every sector of business. The data unfortunately show how this phenomenon is increasingly growing and involves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870278
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Punishment and crime : the impact of felony conviction on criminal activity
Jackson, Osborne - 2020 - This version: October 2019
the impact of punishment severity on criminal behavior. In the theft value distribution between old and new larceny …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012173220
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The Directive Proposal on Criminal Sanctions
Gibson, Johanna - 2011
The harmonization of criminal law and procedure is still in its infancy within European Union law and so the relationship between the commercial framework of intellectual property and the criminal enforcement of its standards remains an unsettled and unsettling adolescence. The Proposal for a...
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Turning the Lab into Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon A Lab Experiment on the Transparency of Punishment
Engel, Christoph - 2018
The most famous element in Bentham’s theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two … purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. This paper inves-tigates Bentham’s intuition in a public goods lab … experiment, by manipulating how much infor-mation on punishment experienced by others is available to would-be offenders …
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Off-Court Misbehavior : Sports Leagues and Private Punishment
Kim, Janine Young; Parlow, Matthew J. - 2015
sports league’s constitution and bylaws. The Essay then contextualizes such league discipline in criminal punishment theory … - juxtaposing punishment norms in public law with incentives and rationales for discipline in professional sports - and analyzes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205646
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When Life Depends on it : Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams in Death Penalty Cases
O'Brien, Sean - 2008
The Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Capital Defense Teams are the culmination of three years of work coordinated by the Public Interest Litigation Clinic (PILC) and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in cooperation with seasoned capital litigators and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216793
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Hyperbolic Criminals and Repeated Time-Inconsistent Misconduct
Utset, Manuel A. - 2008
This Article examines the effect of time-inconsistent preferences on the decision-making process of criminal offenders. It shows that even a relatively small preference for immediate gratification and over-optimism about their future self-control can lead hyperbolic criminals to repeatedly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222849